Radical Empathy - Romm, Robin
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"In this new collection of short stories that Ben Fountain declares 'all marvels, ' Robin Romm (author of The Mercy Papers) revels in the mess behind the slick veneer of modern life. A financially-strapped college student sells her sought after 'Ivy League eggs' to a movie star, then wrestles with her feelings as the child grows up in the public eye. A long-married wife in the midst of a bungled kitchen remodel imagines the excitement of her neighbor's unstable erotic life. Isolated by quarantine, a young widow contends with a talking daffodil that panders to her in therapy-speak. Disquieting,…mehr

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"In this new collection of short stories that Ben Fountain declares 'all marvels, ' Robin Romm (author of The Mercy Papers) revels in the mess behind the slick veneer of modern life. A financially-strapped college student sells her sought after 'Ivy League eggs' to a movie star, then wrestles with her feelings as the child grows up in the public eye. A long-married wife in the midst of a bungled kitchen remodel imagines the excitement of her neighbor's unstable erotic life. Isolated by quarantine, a young widow contends with a talking daffodil that panders to her in therapy-speak. Disquieting, original and strangely reassuring, these ten new stories make quick work of the easy truths and thoughtless salvos that keep us from seeing the wildness of our irreducible lives"--
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Robin Romm is the author of two short story collections, The Mother Garden , and Radical Empathy; a chapbook of stories, The Tilt; as well as a memoir, The Mercy Papers (a New York Times Notable Book). She also compiled and edited the essay collection, Double Bind: Women on Ambition. She's been awarded an O'Henry Prize in short fiction, and was a finalist for the Pen USA prize for her first collection. Her journalism and nonfiction writing have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Wired, O Magazine, Parents, and Slate. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner, the writer Don Waters, and their two spitfire daughters.